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Cohen & West Ltd	Cohen & West Ltd. was a publishing house founded around 1947 and specialising in anthropology and sociology. In the 1970s the firm was acquired by Routledge & Kegan Paul, and Cohen & West was an RKP imprint in the 1970s and 1980s. See the FOB entry for Routledge & Kegan Paul and www.routledge.com.	2008
Contact Publications	Contact Publications was founded by George Weidenfeld around 1944, and published the magazine 'Contact' and a number of books. From 1949 it was absorbed into Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which is now part of the Orion Group. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk.	2006
DeWolfe, Fiske and Company	The publishing firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, as the successor firm to Albert W. Lovering (q.v.). From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119.	2009
F. W. Dodge	The firm of F. W. Dodge was founded as a provider of information and analysis for construction specialists. In 1961 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www.fwdodge.com.	2008
Fleetway Publications	Fleetway Publications came into existence in 1959 as the successor firm to Amalgamated Press. In 1963 it became part of IPC Media, and was subsequently purchased by Robert Maxwell. Robert Maxwell's interest in Fleetway was purchased by Egmont in 1991-92 and for about ten years the imprint Egmont Fleetway was used. The Fleetway name has now virtually ceased to appear. See www.egmont.co.uk.	2008
Four Winds Press	Four Winds Press was founded in 1966 as an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. In 1984 Scholastic decided to discontinue the use of the name Four Winds Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 155.	2008
Franklin Watts	Franklin Watts founded his publishing house in New York in 1942. The firm was purchased by Grolier in 1957 and then was acquired by Hachette as part of its purchase of Grolier in 1988. Grolier was purchased by Scholastic in 2000, but Franklin Watts remained with Hachette. See 'The Bookseller', 21 April 2000 and www.hachette.com.	2013
Frederick Warne Ltd	Frederick Warne founded his own publishing house in London in 1865, and opened a New York office in 1881. Frederick Warne Ltd was bought by Penguin in July 1983. Penguin is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2009
G. W. Carleton	The publishing firm of G. W. Carleton was founded in New York in 1861 as the successor firm to Rudd and Carleton (q.v.), on the retirements of Edward P. Rudd and his father George Rudd. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Washington Carleton. From 1871 George Wellington Dillingham became a partner. In 1886 Carleton retired and the firm continued as the G. W. Dillingham Company until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 84-85, and see the FOB entry for the G. W. Dillingham Company.	2009
G. W. Dillingham Company	The G. W. Dillingham Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1886 as the successor firm to G. W. Carleton (q.v.), on the retirement of George Washington Carleton. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Wellington Dillingham. Dillingham died in 1895, and the firm was managed by his son Frank A. Dillingham and other directors until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 124-125.	2009

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